Tim Kaine Implies Trump Admin Are Holocaust Deniers

Failed Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine stated on Sunday that he believed the administration of President Donald Trump was filled with “Holocaust deniers” and compared Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration and refugees to a sort of latter-day Holocaust.

The Virginia senator’s comments came during an appearance on NBC following one by White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, who defended the executive actions as well as the official White House statement commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day. The statement stirred controversy for failing to explicitly mention the Jewish people as the primary victims of the World War II-era genocide.

Priebus and others from Trump’s administration explained that it should go without saying that the Jews were the main victims of the Holocaust, and that they intended their statement to be inclusive of the other groups that were persecuted alongside the estimated 6 million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis.

Advertisement - story continues below

But according to the U.K.’s The Guardian, Kaine refused to accept the explanation and simply stated, “This is what Holocaust denial is.”

“The fact that they did that and imposed this religious test against Muslims in the executive orders on the same day – this is not a coincidence,” Kaine insisted.

Kaine then turned his attention to senior White House counselor Steve Bannon, whom the left has repeatedly falsely accused of being anti-Semitic, insinuating that the actions taken by the White House were deliberate and malicious.

“I think all of these things are happening together,” Kaine said, “when you have the chief political adviser in the White House, Steve Bannon, who is connected with a news organization that traffics in white supremacy and antisemitism, and they put out a Holocaust statement that omits any mention of Jews.

Advertisement - story continues below

“It’s a religious test,” Kaine said of the temporary travel ban on seven terror-prone nations in the Middle East and Africa. “It imposes a different burden on Muslims than others. And the irony is not lost on me that it was issued the same day as the White House issued their Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation that, unlike any previous administration, removed all reference to Jews.

“So you put a religious test on Muslims and you try to scrub reference to Jews in the Holocaust remembrance,” he added. “This was horribly, horribly mishandled.”

You can watch Kaine’s infuriatingly ill-informed and partisan commentary right here:

Anybody who paid attention to the 2016 presidential race already knows that Tim Kaine is, by and large, an idiot, and why the media continue to listen to him or provide him a platform from which to spew his idiocy is anyone’s guess.

Advertisement - story continues below

This was just the latest attempt to mischaracterize Trump’s executive actions on immigration as a “Muslim ban” and to further falsely smear Trump and those around him as anti-Semitic. They must have already forgotten their own Democrat Party’s issues with the touchy subject that were revealed by the WikiLeaks publication of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee.

That’s right: The left would have you believe that Trump hates Jewish people, even as his daughter and son-in-law are Jews, and he has hired countless Jews to serve in both his business empire and administration, and he has issued the strongest support for Israel of any president in recent memory. (Compared to former President Barack Obama’s habit of stabbing the Jewish state in the back whenever it suited him.)

Ben Marquis lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. He reads voraciously and writes about the news of the day from a conservative-libertarian perspective. He is an advocate for Constitutional government and a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, which protects the rest of our natural rights.